Mar. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1001

declaration is required. Residence and improvements are not compulsory. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessee, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessee, nor for any other cause.

3. Possession will be given on the day of acceptance of tender.

4. The leases shall be for the terms specified, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months’ notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

6. The lessee will have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the land comprised in the lease, except with the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first had and obtained.

7. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease; and he shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

8. The lease will be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Marlborough Land District open for Application.

Department of Lands,
Blenheim, 8th March, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs are open for license, and applications will be received at this office, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908,” up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 13th day of April, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Situated to the north side of Kaituna Valley, about sixteen miles by good road from Blenheim, and varies in altitude from 200ft. to 2,000ft. It consists of hillsides of inferior to fairly good quality, and upon which the native grasses are increasing. Covered generally on the south with short manuka and fern, with a sprinkling of flax and scrub, and on the north generally with fern and patches of bush in the gullies; fairly well watered. The run is fenced only along portions of the boundary, and, as in addition to partly adjoining it is also intersected by freehold land, there is an expensive contingent liability in regard to the balance of the fencing.

Tone, Upcot, Kaitarau, Tapuaenuku, and Whernside Survey Districts.

159 (Kekerangu) | 74,400 0 0 | 13 years | 500 0 0

Situated generally in the Middle Clarence Valley on the left or north bank of the river between Boundary and Red Hill Streams, and extends to the summit of the inland Kaikoura Mountains. The altitude varies from about 300ft. at Boundary Stream to 9,465ft. at the summit of Mount Tapuaenuku. The quality of the soil varies very much; some of the land in the valley and low hills being good limestone formation; some fairly good flats and pastoral country, with much rough mountain-faces said to be much infested with rabbits. The run is much cut up by small scattered freeholds, and the only access at present is through adjoining freeholds and leaseholds.

F. STEPHENSON SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs in Auckland Land District open for Lease.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 9th March, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs are open for lease, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 25th day of April, 1910, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WHAKATANE COUNTY.—WAIHI SOUTH SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Pastoral Land.

National Endowment.

Altitude, 200ft. to 500ft. above sea-level. Broken fern and scrub land; soil of a sandy nature, on pumice formation; well watered by several streams. Distant six miles from Matata by formed road.

78 | XII | 2,304 0 0 | 18 0 0

Altitude, 300ft. to 600ft. above sea-level. Broken to undulating land, covered with fern and scrub; sandy soil, on pumice formation; well watered by two streams. Distant about eight miles from Matata by dray-road.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Disposal under Section 128 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 22nd January, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land will be disposed of to the holder of adjoining land, under section 128 of the said Act, on or after Thursday, the 28th day of April, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 22A, Block VIII, Waipoua Survey District, containing 10 acres, or thereabouts.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District for Disposal under Section 131 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 18th January, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that an area of 3 acres and 22 perches, intersecting Sections 15, 16, and 17, Pukekura Parish, will be disposed of, under section 131 of the said Act, on and after Thursday, the 21st day of April, 1910.

ERIC C. GOLD SMITH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run in Otago Land District open for Application.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 22nd March, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned sections are open for application as a pastoral run, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 9th day of May, 1910, in terms of section 233 of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 21 and 22, Block V, and 28, 29, and 32, Block VI, Clarendon Survey District, Bruce County: Area, 457 acres 3 roods 24 perches; annual rental, £4; term, fourteen years. Pastoral-agricultural land.

E. H. WILMOT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.